Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
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My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition about.
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LADY BRACKNELLI had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now.ALGERNONI hear her hair has turned quite g...
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JACKYour duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNONMy duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
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In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way.I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must ...
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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hide...
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Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
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You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
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People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are ch...
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The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at l...
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What fire does not destroy, it hardens
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Beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins
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It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
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So overjoyed were they at their deliverance that they laughed aloud, and the Earth seemed to them like a flower of silver, and the Moon like a flower ...
